Update list of authors/contributors #6
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Hi Greg,
Just promoting this task to an issue, so we remember it. From 60d0201#r37492486:
For R packages, "aut" and "ctb" is similar to be listed as a full coauthor or only mentioned in the acknowledgements of a journal article. In other words, the difference is in how much they contributed and how much credit they get for their contribution.
When people cite papers the authors get credit, for example on Google Scholar. Similarly, when people cite R packages only the "aut" people get credit, not the "ctb" ones. See citation("gplots"). Like with papers, it's common that the first author puts in more than half the work, but I think it's fair to say that gplots (Warnes et al.) has some coauthors.
My approach as maintainer of several R packages has been to list people as "aut" if they contributed a whole function, but "ctb" for anything else. Like with coauthorship vs. acknowledgements of papers, it's not always easy to draw the line. Can you as first author go through the list and determine who is "aut" and who is "ctb"?